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Access Your Information

Over time, you may enter lots of words and other information into Lexicon. We want to make sure you export your information out at any time in case you ever want to use it with another application, or even stop using Lexicon (but we do hope you'll stick around). There are a few easy ways to export your information.

Text

The most basic way is to export the text of your words. Select File > Export, and choose where to save the file. The text parts of your words will be exported to that file (with each language seperated by tabs).

Rich Text

If you have images or special fonts and colors in your words, rich text is a better way to export. Again, select File > Export, then change the File Type to RTF (or RTFD if your document has images). Finally choose where to save the file. This will save your words in a table in a rich text file with each word as a row and each language as a column. All images, scribbles, fonts, and colors will be exported as well.

Advanced

If you want more control over accessing your Lexicon words information or if you want to export audio files (which are not exported in the above methods), you can use Web Export. Although it is designed for exporting to web pages, the web publishing mechanism uses an XML file to encode your document's information. So, to export your data as XML, select File > Web Publish, choose Local File, choose where to save the export and un-check "Update Automatically". Then make sure Webpage is checked (any template can be used) and click Publish. A directory will be created that includes the file words.xml. This includes all of the information about your words. If you had images, scribbles, or audio files, they will also be included in a subfolder called "data".